Eli Raphael Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, producer, writer and actor. He is part of the group of filmmakers dubbed the Splat Pack, because of their association and their focus on the horror genre. Roth is an award-winning actor, most known for his role as Donny Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, for which he won both a SAG Award (Best Ensemble) and also a BFCA Critics Choice Award (Best Acting Ensemble).

Filmography

• A Very Haunted Renovation — Guest Judge
• 2026Death Boom — Self – Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
• 2026Ice Cream Man — Marty, Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story
• 2026Scratching the Surface: A Look Back — Self, Thanks, Director
• 2026Stiletto — Producer
• 2025Dream Eater — Executive Producer
• 2025Jimmy and Stiggs — Executive Producer
• Let the Devil In — Executive Producer
• 2025Night Always Comes — Blake
• 2025The Piano Killer — Producer, Writer, Director
• 2024Borderlands — Screenstory, Director, Screenplay
• 2024Reflexos — Writer
• Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life — Executive Producer, Creator
• Eli Roth Presents: The Legion of Exorcists — Self - Host, Executive Producer
• 2023Eli Roth's Be Mine: A VR Valentine's Slasher — Writer
• Fright Krewe — Necromancer / Douglas (voice), Executive Producer, Creator
• 2023Talk to Me — Thanks
• 2023Thanksgiving — Story, Director, Producer
• The Idol — Andrew Finkelstein
• Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
• 2022Haunted House: Trick-VR-Treat — Executive Producer, Director, Writer
• 2022The Haunted Museum: 3 Ring Inferno — Executive Producer
• 2022X — Thanks
• 2021Death Rider in the House of Vampires — Drac Cassidy
• 2021Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained — Thanks
• 2021Fin — Director
• 2021Fortress — Thanks
• Euphoria — Batman
• 2019Godzilla: King of the Monsters — Fighter Pilot (uncredited)
• 2019Haunt — Producer
• 2018Death Wish — Director
• 2018The House with a Clock in Its Walls — Comrade Ivan, Director
• 2017Baywatch — Co-Producer
• 2016Cabin Fever — Producer, Screenplay, Original Story, Executive Producer
• 2016Dark Souls 3: The Witches — Director, Writer
• #15SecondScare — Executive Producer
• 2015Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film
• 2015Game Changer: The Legacy of Saw — Self, Thanks
• 2015Knock Knock — Screenplay, Director, Producer
• Real Scares — Executive Producer
• South of Hell — Director, Executive Producer
• 2015Zombies Gone Wild!
• 2014Clown — Frowny the Clown, Producer
• 2014The Green Inferno — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 2014The Sacrament — Producer, Presenter
• 2014The Stranger — Producer
• Hemlock Grove — Director, Executive Producer
• 2013John Dies at the End — Thanks
• 2013The Last Exorcism Part II — Producer
• 2012Aftershock — Gringo, Screenstory, Producer
• 2012Rock of Ages — Stefano
• 2012The Man with the Iron Fists — Wolf Clan #2, Producer, Screenplay
• 2012The Silent Earth — Thanks
• 2011Hostel: Part III — Characters
• 2010Piranha 3D — Wet T-Shirt Host, Thanks
• 2010The Last Exorcism — Producer
• 2010The United Monster Talent Agency — Director #2
• 2009Don't Look Up — Béla Olt
• 2009Inglourious Basterds — SGT. Donny Donowitz, Thanks
• 2009Stolz der Nation — Director
• 2007Death Proof — Dov
• 2007Grindhouse — Dov (segment "Death Proof") / Tucker (segment "Thanksgiving"), Other
• 2007Hostel: Part II — Producer, Director, Writer, Characters
• On the Lot
• 2007Southland Tales — Man Who Gets Shot on Toilet, Thanks
• 2006Hostel — American Stoner (uncredited), Director, Producer, Writer
• 20052001 Maniacs — Justin, Producer
• 2005Disaster! — Lumberjack (voice)
• Best Week Ever
• 2004Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin — Self, Executive Producer, Thanks
• 2004Kill Bill: Vol. 2 — Thanks
• 2004Tales from the Crapper — Party Goer
• 2003Cabin Fever — Justin / Grim, Director, Screenplay, Producer
• Icons
• 2002Pierre and Sonny Jim — (puppeteer)
• 2001Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV — Beautiful Young Boy
• 2001Donnie Darko — Thanks
• 2000The Rotten Fruit — Animation, Writer, Director, Producer, Music
• Chowdaheads — Walter / Sully, Writer, Executive Producer, Editor, Animation, Creator
• 1999Terror Firmer — Shocked Onlooker
• 1998The Horse Whisperer — Office Worker
• 1997The Lost World: Jurassic Park — Subway Man (uncredited)
• 1996The Mirror Has Two Faces — Male Student
• 1994Restaurant Dogs — Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
• Shark Week
• 1985Untitled Paper Towel Project
• 1984Splatter On The Linoleum
• 1984The Loser Show
• Burger Night: Luli, Magda & Lore — Executive Producer
• Creature House — Executive Producer
• Don't Go in That House, Bitch! — Director, Writer, Producer
• Final Cut — Director, Writer, Producer
• Lake Mead — Producer, Writer
• Sturmgruppe — Rap*st
• Thanksgiving 2 — Producer, Writer, Director
• The Gun — Executive Producer
• Trackmaster — Executive Producer
• Untitled Knock Knock Remake Film — Producer

Appearances as themselves (49)

• 2026Scum of the Earth — Self
• Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast — Self
• 2026The Thing Expanded — Self
• Phoning It In — Self (voice)
• 2022Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story — Self
• Youn's Unexpected Journey — Self
• 2021I Am Alfred Hitchcock — Self
• 2021Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess — Self
• 2020Chris Jericho's 30th Anniversary Celebration — Self
• Dead Talk Live — Self - Guest
• 2020Tales of the Uncanny — Self
• 2019QT8: The First Eight — Self
• The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs — Self
• Eli Roth's History of Horror — Self - Host
• 2018Me Me Lai Bites Back — Self
• 201778/52 — Self
• 2015David Choe: High Risk — Self
• 2015Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made — Self
• 2015Star Wars: Greatest Moments — Self
• 2014Why Horror? — Self
• @midnight with Chris Hardwick — Self
• 2013Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking — Self
• 2013Worshiping The Wicker Man — Self
• 2011Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope — Self
• 2011Corman's World — Self - Filmmaker
• 2011Scream: The Inside Story — Self
• 2011The 'Scarface' Phenomenon — Self
• 2010Cinémas d'Horreur - Apocalypse, Virus, Zombies — Self
• 2010The Splat Pack — Self
• 200913 Scarier Movie Moments — Self
• 2009Direct Your Own Damn Movie! — Self
• 2009Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock — Self
• 2009Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil — Self
• 2009The Shark Is Still Working — Self
• 2008Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX — Self
• 2008In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy — Self
• 2008Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock — Self
• 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments — Self
• 2007Eli on Ichi — Self
• 2007Heckler — Self
• 2007Hostel Part II: A Legacy of Torture — Self
• 2007One by One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead — Self
• 200650 Films to See Before You Die — Self
• 2006Hostel Dissected — Self
• 2006The Dark Side of Porn: Does Snuff Exist? — Self
• 2005The Perfect Scary Movie — Self
• 2004Spaced: Skip to the End — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• CBS News Sunday Morning — Self